Motor control in the human spinal cord

Artificial Organs

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 216-219

  Dimitrijevic, Milan R ^a   Persy, Ilse ^b,c   Forstner, Claudia ^b   Kern, Helmut ^b   Dimitrijevic, Meta M ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b LUDWIG BOLTZMANN INSTITUTE FOR LUNG VASCULAR RESEARCH   (Austria)

^c VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Motor control; Reflex; Spinal cord injury; Surface electrode polyelectromyography

Indexed keywords

ELECTRODES; MUSCLE; NEURONS; PATIENT REHABILITATION;

GRAY MATTER; HUMAN SPINAL CORD; INJURY MODELS; MOTOR CONTROL; NEURONAL CIRCUITS; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STRUCTURAL RELATIONSHIP; SURFACE ELECTRODE; SURFACE ELECTRODE POLYELECTROMYOGRAPHY;

BRAIN;

ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; LOCOMOTION; MOTOR CONTROL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE REFLEX; NERVE FIBER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL REFLEX; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; MOTONEURON; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; HUMANS; MOTOR NEURONS; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 20644457336     PISSN: 0160564X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1594.2005.29038.x     Document Type: Article

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